Skirt and waist hanger.



PATENTED FEB. 4, 1908.

(3. W. HEWLETT. SKIRT AND WAIST HANGER.

APPLICATION TILED NOV. 7. 1907.

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SKIRT AND WAIST HANG-ER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 4, 1908.

Application filed November '7 1907. Serial No. 401.114.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLOTTE WARREN HEWLETT, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of New York, Flushing, borough of Queens, county of Queens, and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Skirt and WVaist Hanger, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact descri tion.

T is invention-is an improved article of manufacture, more especially designed for supporting or hanging such articles of apparel as a skirt and waist, and embodying in its construction a safety-pin, a hook depending therefrom and an upwardly-projecting loop for suspending the pin and hook and the garments placed thereon.

An object of the invention is the provision of such a device in which the pin, hook and loop willbe securely bound together and constructed of a single piece of wire.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both views.

Figure 1 is a front face view of a skirt and waist hanger constructed in accordance with my invention; and Fig. 2 is a like view of a modified form of the invention.

In the construction of my improved article of manufacture the same is composed of three principal elements, all of which are made from a single piece of wire and consist of a hook 5, a safety-pin 6 arranged substantially transversely thereto, and a loop 7 for suspending the hook and pin and the garments placed thereon.

The safety-pin 6 is provided with coils at opposite ends, one of which forms a spring for the movable or pin member, and the other provides a catch for engaging the pointed extremity of the pin when the latter is passed between one of the convolutions of the same, as clearly shown. The catch-supporting member of the safety-pinit will be noted is made in two sections, one of which asses into the loop 7 and the other passes 1nto the hook 5.

The construction thus far described aplies to both forms of the invention shown in the drawings. These, however, differ in the particular relation of the twists or turns in the wire in joining the primary elements of the device together.

In that form of the invention shown in Fig. 1, the wire after being coiled to form the catch of the pin is extended to form one of the sections of the back of the pin or catchsupporting member. It is then bent to form the loop 7, at the terminus of which it is wrapped about itself and thence fashioned to form the hook 5, the latter, it will be noted, being composed of a double strand bent upon itself with the free end of the hook arranged in a plane substantially parallel to the plane of the loop and pin and at the front thereof. The wire after forming the hook is again twisted or turned about itself and then passes into the other section of the catoh-support-' ing member of the pin, at the outer end of which it is coiled and extended, respectively forming the spring and the pointed member of the pin.

In the construction of the device shown in Fig. 2, the bending of the wire instead of starting from the coiled catch of the pin, begins at the pointed member thereof, and after being bent to form the opposite coil or spring and the adjacent catch-supporting section, is fashioned to form the hook 5, the wire being wrapped about itself at the starting point of said hook, and then bent to form the loop 7, after which it is again wrapped about itself and extended to provide the other catch-supporting section of the safety-pin and the coil catch at its extremity.

In the ordinary use of the device, the skirt will be attached by passing the pointed member of the safety -pin through the skirt s waist band, and the waist will be hung over the hook. The device with this, or other articles of apparel, applied, will be suspended by passing the loop over a nail or such other projection.

It is apparent that other modifications of my invention will present themselves to those skilled in the art to which the device appertains, and I consider I am entitled to such changes as fall within the scope of the claims annexed.

Having thus described my invention, I

Patent:

1. An article of manufacture, comprising a hook, a safety-pin arranged transversely of and connected with the hook, and a loop connected with the hook and safety-pin for suspending the same.

2. An article of manufacture, comprising a safety-pin, a hook, and a loop for suspending the pin and hook, all made of a single piece of claim as new and desire to secure by Letters wire with the catch-supporting member of the pin made in two sections, one of which passes into the hook and the other passes into the loop.

3. An article of manufacture, comprising a hook and an upwardly-projecting loop connected therewith, and a safety-pin arranged transversely of the loop and hook and in substantially the same plane as the loop, the hook, safety-pin and loop being composed of a single piece of wire.

4. An article of manufacture, comprising a wire safety-pin coiled at the opposite ends to respectively provide a spring and a catch for the pin, a wire hook, and a wire loop arranged substantially transversely of the pin at the center thereof and composed of the same piece of wire employed in the making of the pin, and with the catch-supporting member of said pin made in two sections, one of which passes into the hook and the other passing into the loop.

5. An article of manufacture, comprising a safety-pin having a hook substantially centrally depending from the catch-supporting member and arranged transversely thereto, and suspending means projecting upwardly from the hook above the in.

In testimony whereof have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

CHARLOTTE WARREN HEWLETT.

Witnesses:

ARTHUR VON PEMEsBEIN, JAMES S. SMITH. 

